Sharp County record., 1887-03-24

I that tribe came up alI sdlt'
We will exterminate you unless YOU
surrender the man vino COMPUTED thaI
| crime" -.o-,oI
The cbieftain who did the Grim Steppe1
/ ont from the ranks and sad:
lam not afraid 10 die, but l have a
v,fe and four children, and have father
! ageI and a mother aged, whom support
by hunting, and 1 sorrow TO leave 'nem
Jpst as be said that his old father from
behind stepped out and said:
He shall not die; l take MS place
am old and well stricken in years. can
do no good. Imight as well die. MY uay9
are almost over. He can not be spared
Take me.
And they accepted the sacrifice. Won
darful sacrifice! you say, but not so won
derfUl as that found in the Gospel, Tor
we deserved to die, aye, we were sen
fenced when Christ, not worn cut WIN
wears. bu. in flush Of his youth SAID:
"Save that man from going down to the
nit I am the ransom. Put his burdens on
nv shoulders. Let his stripes fall on ny
hack. Take nv heart for his heart Let
me die that he may live
Shall il be told in Heaven today that,
notwithstanding all those wounds, ana all
that blood. and all those tears, and all
that agony. YOU would not accept himi
Was it for crimes that had done,
He Croaned upon the tree:
Amazing pity. grace unknown,
And love beyond degree.
- - ,,., , nm a Svr~NvU d in .
of that scene that imDre5seS ne more
than that Of his own mother. You need
not point her out TO me. can sea by the
sorrow. the anguish, the wO2, by the up
thrown hands. That all means mother.
"Oa." YOU say, "why didn' tshe 60 down
10 the foot Of the hill and sit with her back
10 the scenel Il was too horrible Tor her
to look upon
Do you not know when a child "a IN
anguish or trouble it always makes
heroine Of a motherl Take her away, you
say. from the cross. You can not drag
her away. She will keep on looking; as
her son brea-hes she will stand there
looking Oh, what scene it was Tor a
tender-haarted mother TO lOoS upon!
How gladly she would have sprung 10 his
relief. Il was her son. Her son. How
gladly she would have Clanbered up on the
cross and hung there herself If her son
could have been relieved How strength
ening she would have been 10 Christ
if she might have come close BY him, and
soothed hlm3 Oh, there was a good deal
in what the little sick chill said upon
whom a surgical operation Of painful
nature must be performed. The doctor
said:
THAT child won't live through this
operation unless you encourage him. You
90 in and get his consent"
The father told him all the doctor said,
and added:
Now, John, will you 60 through with
it: will you consent TO it!i
He looked very pale, and he thought a
ni2gts 5Yts and fsiba4 ssld + YOU VI hold nv hand
will.n
So the father held his hand and led him
straight through the peril On, woman,
in your hour OF anguish, whom do you
want with your Mother. ii the mother
Of Jesus could only have taken those
bleeding feet into her lap. If she might
have taken the dying head on her bosom.
If she might have said to him:
1T will soon be over, Jesus; it will soon
be over. and we will meet again and il
will be all WELL
But no, she dared not come up so close
They would have struck her back with
their hammers. They would have kicke
her down the hill
| There can be no alleviatiOn at all Je
/ sus must suffer and Mary must look.
/ suppose she thought Of the birth-hour in
/ Bethlehem. IsUppose she thought Of tbs
/ time when, with her boy in her bosom
| she hastened into the darkness in the
/ fight toward Egypt. l suppose she
| thought Of his boyhool, when ne was the
| JOY OF her heart | suppose she thought Of
| the thousand kindnesses he had done her
not f0rsaking her or forgetting her, ever
in his last nom ents, but turning to Johr
| and saying:
There is mother; take her with you
/ She is old now: she cln not help herself
Do for her just as would have done for
her if l had lived. Be very tender and
gentle with her. Behold thy mother"
She thought il all over, and there is nc
/ memory ike a mothers memory and there
| is no woe like a mothers woe.
/ Iremark again: This is a tender scene
! because it is a Christian reunion. Why j:
/ il that in the seasonal meeting when
asked a woman if it were her son who sat
next TO her making profession Of his faith,
/ she made no answer, but, after moment,
trying 10 control her emotion. she burst
| into tearsl | said within myself: She
need not tell me the story. 1t is the old
story Of prodigal got back THE dead
| is alive again, and the lost IS found Oh
| how many families there are that rejoice
| together to-day.
These Christians during the rest of tht
/ year, perhaps, will not know much about
| each other. You 90 in one circle of so.
/ ciety, these 90 in some other circle of so
/ ciety, and this one travels in that path
and this one the other path; but to-day We
| all come on one platform. and we make
| one confession. and we cling to one cross,
/ and we gaze upon one death anguish Il
| seems to me this morning not like q
| church, but like a great family circle
/ and we join hands around the cross ot
| Christ, and we say:
'One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one
/ cross, one Christ, one doxology, one
| Heaven"1
While stand here it seems to me as il
| this communion table, which is only sever
or eight feet long and three or four feet
wide, widens until all the Christians Of
/ our own denomination can sit at it: and
/ the table widens until all the Christians
/ in this land Of all names and denouina.